Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

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Dimitris Antoniou has studied Orthodox Theology (B.A., University of Athens), Oriental Studies and Anthropology (D.Phil., University of Oxford). His research combines modern Greek studies, anthropology and architectural history and focuses on unrealized government initiatives, the imaginary built environment, and the role of fantasy in politics. He has recently completed an ethnographic study of an unbuilt mosque in the suburbs of Athens. He is currently collaborating with architects, historians and artists on research that explores the Táma tou Éthnous (The Nation’s Vow), a church that the Greek military regime of 1967 attempted to construct in fulfillment of a nineteenth century vow.

Iosif Kovras received his Ph.D. from Queen’s University Belfast (2011) and his M.Sc. in International Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (2006). His research interests include comparative post-conflict democratization, transitional justice, mobilization of grassroots actors and symbolic politics. Currently he is working on two overlapping lines of research. The first investigates why societies that have successfully democratized at the end of a conflict delay truth recovery for missing persons, with particular emphasis on the comparative experience of Cyprus, Greece, and Spain. The second examines the political and social reactions to the sovereign debt crisis in Southern Europe. His first book Truth recovery and Transitional Justice: Deferring Human Rights Issues is forthcoming with Routledge.

Ayşe Ozil holds a Ph.D. in history (2009) from Birkbeck College, University of London. Her monograph which has been published in 2013 by Routledge under the title Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire: A Study of Communal Relations in Anatolia explores the meaning and practice of community among Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman Empire in north-western Anatolia during the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has contributed to the books H Mikrasiatiki Katastrofi kai oi Prosfyges: Mia Nea Optiki (A. Liakos, ed., 2011) and İstanbul’un Rum Mimarları (E. Şarlak and H. Kuruyazıcı, eds., 2010) and published Turkish translations of Greek works including Periegesis eis tin Pamphylian kata to 1850 by D. Danieloglou. Since 2009 she has taught at Boğaziçi and Sabancı universities. Her current research focuses on the social and cultural history of Greeks in Ottoman Istanbul.

Anastasia Sakellariadi studied Archaeology (2001) and History (2004) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received Masters degrees in Byzantine Art and Archaeology (A.U.Th., 2005) and in Public Archaeology (UCL, 2006). In her doctoral dissertation she investigated the socio-political and economic role of archaeology in local communities in Greece (UCL, 2011). She has worked on several projects involving excavation, ethnographic research, documentation and digitization of collections and archaeological data management and publication. She drafted the Management Plan for the Cultural Resources of the Area of Philippi for the nomination of the archaeological site of Philippi to UNESCO’s World Heritage List. She is the managing editor of the Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies.

Eleonora Vratskidou graduated with a B.A. in History and Archaeology from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, and holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History and Civilizations from the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (E.H.E.S.S.), Paris. Her research concerns the cultural history of modern Greece, with a focus on the study of cultural transfers in the context of nation-state formation. Her doctoral dissertation examined the emergence of the visual artist’s profession and the construction of the artistic field in nineteenth century Greece. She was a course lecturer at the E.H.E.S.S., 2011-12, co-teaching an interdisciplinary seminar on the history of biography (18th-20th centuries), and was a visiting researcher (2012) at the Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität Berlin, where she worked on the concept of genius in late nineteenth century European aesthetics.

Post Doctoral Fellows 2011-2012
Post Doctoral Fellows 2010-2011
Post Doctoral Fellows 2009-2010
Post Doctoral Fellows 2008-2009
Post Doctoral Fellows 2007-2008
Post Doctoral Fellows 2006-2007
Post Doctoral Fellows 2005-2006
Post Doctoral Fellows 2004-2005
Post Doctoral Fellows 2003-2004
Post Doctoral Fellows 2002-2003
Post Doctoral Fellows 2001-2002
Post Doctoral Fellows 2000-2001
Post Doctoral Fellows 1992-2000